After Israel bombed Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981, Saddam Hussein redoubled his efforts to get a bomb.
It destroyed Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981 and a Syrian reactor being built by North Koreans in 2007.
In 1981 it bombed Saddam Hussein's Osirak reactor, and in 2007 it bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor under construction.
Israel had destroyed the Osirak reactor just outside Baghdad in June 1981.
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In nineteen eighty-one, Iraq was on the point of acquiring nuclear power. 10.17.01 Narrator The Osirak reactor was an experimental plutonium plant.
Israel attacked and destroyed the Osirak nuclear facility in Iraq in 1981 and attacked a target in Syria that the United States believes was a nuclear reactor.
The public will support a government decision to strike even if the strike is not a one-off like the 1981 IAF strike that destroyed Iraq's Osirak reactor.
Such an attack would be a far more complex undertaking than the Israeli strikes against Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981 and Syria's reactor near al-Kibar in 2007.
Iraq's official nuclear program was dealt a setback in 1981, when a reactor it was building in Osirak was destroyed in a raid by the Israeli air force.
It all tends to add up to a very major military effort -- not the simple "one and done" raid Israel carried out on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981.
In 1981, Israel attacked and destroyed the Osirak nuclear facility in Iraq, and in September it attacked a target in Syria that the United States believes was a nuclear reactor.
But even if they achieved temporary success, it would be just that, because the Iranian program is very different from the Iraqi Osirak reactor that the Israelis nailed so precisely in 1981.
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Israel has already hinted that, if the Iranians cannot be stopped by other means, it may consider military strikes at nuclear facilities, similar to its raid on Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981.
It detracts in no way from the significance -- or the praiseworthiness -- of Secretary Cheney's remark to note that such a reversal of the American stance on the Osirak raid is long overdue.
Indeed, it is now obvious to everyone what Israel contended all along: Had Osirak been allowed to come on line as planned, the Butcher of Baghdad would long ago have secured fissionable material for use in atomic or thermonuclear devices.
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